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William Nein (2023)

by William Nein

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1.
Another leaf on a family tree Brought up on dirt An heirloom was handed down to me Of empty worth An incapable love I will never be enough for A broken star at the window Left in the dark of the family home Another storm and the branches break A river takes them to the sea Pulled under waves they try to escape And come upon a shore eventually Their past lives they drowned With new roots growing underground And no history written yet With no memories to forget Flowers bloom at the window As a new life starts to grow Birds on branches sing Another new beginning
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Masking tape forget all the faces Covering my tracks and traces Leaking like Red Dwarf in stasis Better go and close the suitcases You’ll never get to no new places Like an animal on a farm grazes Stumbling with tied up laces Looking for another oasis Waking up to go through the paces Slowing down a day at the races Brainwashing with average phrases Poetry and drama need stages Smiling no longer needs braces With government and alien bases Seeking to avoid all the tasers Flowers boom and break all the vases Etiquette forgets all the graces Furniture allowing the lazes Losing yourself inside mazes Furnacing the fire as it blazes Locking door of all of the cages Frozen ice caps over the ages Blowing up and watching the gauges Fingers burn and turning the pages
3.
Kindness 02:45
Playing games sure takes its toll I have no more dice to roll Lost everything in a hand I used to know Thought I was saved - ended up sold Brought in the warm and left out cold My heart was young but now it's getting old And running out of time Running out of lines for a story There's no beat I can find It's just a telling sign to ignore me Losing things that I held dear To grasp until they disappear If they don't wanna stay then let them go 'Cause there's no game that I could play That would ever make them stay When I go all in they leave anyway And there's no peace of mind Telling me I'm fine to be lonely I'll say another line But take it as a sign to ignore me I'm praying that we all will find Somebody we can share our time with Everybody deserves kindness Kindness
4.
Administer a youth cure on cubed sugar Startled horses stampede Sketched by a ghost muse wearing ash boots As velvet houses recede Yeah Inject thought replacement Automatic creation Shepherd treasures buried Circus valentine Echoes throw time Joyless pleasures precede me What came before the voice was ignored inside the garden? Bloodied desk-beast The lunch-time deceased The primitive decrease slowly Ringed bell commotion Crowded demotion The saints are marching endlessly Falling through doors and the cosmic flooring Bored underground and wait in rooms, crawling for the stars to call My books are erasing but one word is left
5.
Endgame 03:57
Eradicate all the weeds that grow In a mind suffocate and overthrow Keep the cells under control Line 'em up into another row Friendly fires face the foe Shooting arrows with a stringless bow While we sink when tides are low Rising waters will someday overflow In fortress jails we are reborn Learning history with the pages torn Lives we never had we mourn As games are played blindly as a pawn Some will aim for the other side Some will try to find a place to hide Some will confront attack and die Some will survive inside a disguise
6.
Cornerstone 02:59
If you ever feel alone or need to see a face I will always be standing in this place Take your time to roam exploring all the space I will always be here right in this place Like a stone to sit on when you walk on the beach You don't have to worry if the tide covers me And even when you feel like things are out of reach Often they are closer than they appear to be So cover me in sand as hours turn to weeks Underneath the ground lies mountain peaks Blow it all away and like Gobekli Tepe Things can still be found once they are seeked So even when you feel like there's nowhere left to turn And everything you desire to touch starts to burn All the things that exist have their own role to play Your story's here to teach you how to find your own way So wash away the tears and wipe away the years Look towards the sky, put your face to the sun When night-time comes around there's a moon that can be found When there's no end to time there's no need to run And if the world around us starts to collapse and fall I will be right here if you ever want to call Even though the heartbreak makes it hard to stay warm Love's always appearing again in different forms
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Everybody's always calling me Everybody's always calling me Why can't they let me be Off the hook and ringing free Everybody's always calling me They don't learn I never take their call They don't stop when I ignore them all And even when I phone 'em back They don't stop, they keep attacking me Everybody's always calling me All I want is some time alone Away from dogs with electric bones And instead of being at home Oh how I wish that I were roaming But everybody's always calling me They seem to have insatiable needs Will it ever be feasible That picking up will end the trouble Everybody's always calling me They think I live in a silicon room And exist inside a handheld tomb But there's a place that I could wander And see a rainbow over yonder Everybody's always calling me But I'm away with the fairies, birds, and bees And now I keep my phone turned off Cause what I give won't ever be enough Everybody's always calling me Credit to C.R.
8.
Everdon 01:29
Everything was peaceful in Everdon Talking to the chicken in Everdon Eating mushrooms No heat in our rooms Twisting ankles, run in fields in the morning Arguing with takeaway men some evenings Shivering showers Smoking flowers Sunstroke drinking Mattress sinking Don't be sad, fungi was had in Everdon We took the weed and spread the seed in the garden And flowers will grow The wind will still blow The lambs will still baaaa By the water
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The ending scenes have just begun With no footage left to run And actors pretending They could be anyone As the sun sets on the cast Sand inside the hourglass Is always descending And turning to the past Lives we watch upon the screen Reels of film spinning through the light That keep us focused on photographs Dreams and memories fill up the night We can live in nostalgia And buy the memorabilia Stay locked in the screenings Of our private cinema Play the movie over again Change the lines and editing Another new story We can begin again The lives we watch on the screen Reels of film spinning through the light Keep us focused on photographs Dreams and memories fill up the night

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Songs written between 2021-2023

Recorded in my bedroom using Protools 7, Tascam DP-008, Behringer Q1202USB Xenyx, Korg Volca sample, Microkorg XL, Donner Chorus and Delay pedals, Shure SM58, AKG C1000

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released July 7, 2023

Written, performed, recorded and mixed by William Nein
Photography by Amit Gabbi

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William Nein London, UK

Alternative-Pop, Bedroom-Recording music.
Band member of Patsy Clone

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